Glen Starling started his business in 1975 offering home improvement services. In 1984, Glen and his wife, Linda, decided to concentrate on installing gutters as their only service. So they set out to find the best gutter system available to offer to their customers. They purchased the Leafguard...

A Landscaping Company Serving the Local Community Design Build Landscape Architecture & Maintenance for Homes & Businesses in the Williamsburg, Yorktown, Virginia Peninsula & Surrounding Areas. Custom Gardens is a full-service landscaping company and provides comprehensive commercial and residential...

Sports

After four straight state titles, you might expect the Walsingham Academy girls track and field team to take a moment to catch its breath and rest on its laurels. Instead, despite some obstacles this year, the team showed no signs of slowing down en route to capturing the Trojans’ fifth straight...

In the last game of the regular season, Jamestown faced Tabb on Monday night. The game turned into an intense defensive match, scoreless for the first 70 minutes of regulation. Then, Jamestown’s Michael Meese scored the only goal, which was enough to give the Eagles their final win of the regular...

Old Dominion football on NFL Network? It’s too soon to say, but Conference USA announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to carry 10 games on the network, with one game per week on Saturday afternoons. The four-year agreement adds to C-USA’s stable of media partners, which also includes...

Friday’s lacrosse semifinal match between Jamestown and Lafayette is about as perfect a matchup as you can hope for in high school sports — crosstown rivals, one team full of experienced seniors, the other full of promising young talent and a drive toward a state title at stake. Lafayette and Jamestown...

Life & Entertainment News

10 River Seining: Seine nets have been used for ages to catch fish and other creatures in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. Rangers will lead you in discovering the variety of aquatic life in the York River with seine and dip nets.1-3 p.m. Sunday, York River State Park, 9801 York River...

Whether you’re in the mood for Italian panna cotta or South Korean beef bulgogi, the Busch Gardens Food and Wine Festival offers something you might crave. This year’s festival will have new kiosks and food items, said Busch Gardens executive chef Justin Watson. One reason for this is every four...

Soon the Kimball Theatre stage will fill with musicians tuning their instruments for a final moment in the spotlight with the woman who has given them direction for the past 15 years. After a few moments of chaos and clatter, conductor Janna Hymes will lead the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra in...

The Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra’s last concert of the 2018-19 season, Masterworks 5, has a sentimental air to it — both in the music choices and the grand finale feel. Janna Hymes, conductor and music director of the WSO, said this concert will be filled with thrilling pieces, including “Adagietto”...

Opinion

The Virginia Arts Festival’s popular coffee concert series held May 16 in the Williamsburg Winery closed with the Dali Quartet and pianist Olga Kern, the Festival’s newly named chamber music series director, also considered an international super star (and glamorous one at that). The Dali, currently...

About 100 years before the birth of Jesus, the Roman poet/philosopher Lucretius was born in Pompeii. He went on to write his only known poem, “On the Nature of Things,” in which he put forth the tenets of Epicureanism, which is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek...

Bill Bryant has taken his leave and has departed physically from Mother Earth. She and all of her creations, those of the land and trees where they assemble, or those within the bodies of water where they thrive, have felt his presence and shall continue to do so. He touched the sensibilities and...

I am not surprised at the results of the so-called investigation into the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook picture. I am not qualified to sit in judgement of anyone on this planet. Gov. Northam knows the truth, no matter what we see in the news. I hope he is prepared for the day he has...